Pakistan need batting coach not bowling: Zaheer Abbas

ISLAMABAD: Former legendary cricketer Zaheer Abbas advised the Pakistan Cricket Board to immediately appoint a batting coach for the national team instead of focusing on the bowlers ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy in June.

Zaheer also called on the selectors to take a few risks and drop those players from the Champions Trophy who had not performed during the tour to South Africa urging the selectors to look for new talent in the batting department, reported a private news channel.

"What is more urgent to my mind is having a specialized camp for the batsmen or hiring a batting coach as soon as possible because it is in batting that the team has struggled badly in recent times," he said.

Zaheer said Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal and Nasir Jamshed had not performed up to the mark in recent times.

It is pertinent to mention here that PCB had hired former captain and bowling great Wasim Akram to supervise a 10-day camp for the top 19
pace bowlers in the country including those named in the 30-member
probables list for the Champions Trophy. (APP)